2026 Presidents Cup predictions: Best bets, odds, picks for USA vs. Team International

Golf’s most one-sided rivalry returns this week at Medinah Country Club, just outside of Chicago.Team USA, captained by Brandt Snedeker and headlined by Scottie Scheffler, is a decided -450 favorite over the International Team, captained by Geoff Ogilvy and headlined by Si Woo Kim, at FanDuel Sportsbook.The Americans are 13-1-1 in this biennial event, and have won 11 Presidents Cups on the spin.The last time the United States didn’t win was in 2003 in South Africa when the two sides tied.

And the last (and only) time Team International won was in 1998, just over a year after Tiger Woods won his first major and a few weeks before Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings.It’s been a long time.As the odds suggest, it seems unlikely to expect the International Team to get off the schneid this weekend in Illinois.

Team USA will trot out a powerhouse team anchored by Scheffler, Cameron Young, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Russell Henley, and Wyndham Clark.The Americans are so confident that they should cruise in this event that Snedeker was happy to hand a roster spot to 21-year-old phenom Jackson Koivun.

The International Team will counter with Si Woo Kim, Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama, Tom Kim, and a host of solid-but-unspectacular PGA Tour veterans like Nick Taylor, Corey Conners, and Min Woo Lee.It may be tricky to find betting value in what looks to be a well-priced mismatch, but there are some really tempting numbers in the prop markets:It’s no surprise that Scheffler is the favorite in this market, but the World No.

1 has never really stood out in these team events.So instead, we’ll focus on Patrick Cantlay to be the leading man in Medinah.He’s flown under the radar on the PGA Tour lately because he hasn’t won since the 2022 BMW Championship, but Cantlay had himself a really strong 2026 campaign.

The 34-year-old posted five top-5 finishes and 11 top-10s in 20 starts, and he was runner-up at the BMW Championship, the penultimate tournament of th...